• bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
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    Obligatory: make sure your deep fryer turkey is fully thawed before dunking it. If you’re pulling it out of the freezer at the time of this writing, you’re gonna start a fire. Happy turkey day!

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      I’m not from the USA and ice always wanted to ask, is deep frying the turkey really how it’s done or is it just a joke?

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        Most (99%) oven roast the turkey but the fattest of rednecks deep fry it to show reverence to their fat ancestors.

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          As a fat redneck, you’re mostly correct. You just forgot to add the word drunk in there somewhere.

          Imma fry one up in about half an hour. I’m also gonna start drinking in just a minute. My fat drunk uncle who lost several of his fingers in a fireworks incident is smiling down on me from redneck heaven.

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          The funniest part is it’s the middle class white dudes who burn down their backyards meanwhile bubba and Uncle Jim Bob will give you the juiciest fuckin turkey you’ll ever have in your entire life.

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            I would always trust Bubba and Uncle Jim Bob to cook and grill better than Sam or Elliot from the insurance company

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        Nope it’s definitely a thing. We’ve got a bird in the oven now, but some friends are bringing over another bird and their fryer this afternoon. Deep fried turkey is delicious, nevermind the fat jokes lol

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          Air fried is not deep fried though, similar results but no risk of explosion and the same as deep fried

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        there are some restaurants that hire a trailer truck full of friers and line them up in the car park to create an assembly line of fried turkeys.

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        The US is a very diverse country, some people deep fry their turkey, most people don’t. Many families don’t make turkey at all.

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    I read an article about not defrosting if you’re cooking it in the oven. It said you just add 50% time at temp.

    I’m not a bird guy though, so I’m really just here to hint at knowledge that exists for you to find, which really makes you think about how knowledge works in the first place and how your brain can trigger memory from either sensory input or thought or both, but then sometimes it’s not there also.

    Anyway someone in the fam got covid so I’m doing steaks instead.

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    Nah you can actually defrost it really fast by doing sous vide or an aproximation By having somewhat regularly flowing water with it in the sink or bathtub. You can also cook frozen but you will want to really rub butter or oil on the skin on the outside since you cant get it under the skin and baste the turkey every hour or so until its up to temp.

    Its too late to get a nice brine but there are reasonable answers to getting a nice dinner anyways.

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        Its not super great, but it sorta depends on how you bring it up and that you dont do it in a way that takes hours of it being above the bacteria threshold like by using an immersion circulator. And then baking it fully up to temp immediately after. Ita not best practice but its often usable if you have no other options.

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          Also, it (can) ruin the flavour, if done at too high temperatures. And im not sure but osmosis can also take away some flavour.

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    It’s only too late if you expect to have company.

    It’s never too late if you’re planning on eating that whole big boy yourself.

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        Depends on the size of the ham. One chunk of ham just for two people? Its possible.

        But I just didn’t freeze mine, its got a sell-by date of Dec. 3rd, so kept it in the fridge.

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    If you leave it in a full bathtub now, you should be ready to fry tomorrow (~9 hours to thaw 10-14lbs turkey in a tub). Too late for a good bake though.

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        I’ve started with a frozen bird in the morning, and had a nicely baked turkey at a reasonable time this way. Put it in a bath until it’s not entirely a brick, replacing some of the water frequently. Balance it in the sink so you can run the faucet down the neck. Run water until spine is thawed enough to spatchcock. Doesn’t matter if most the meat is still frozen, it’ll cook fine.

        *Went to brine my turkey the day before and found a weird “growth”. It was really unappetizing and concerning, so I overreacted and threw out the bird. Could only find frozens, so the new bird only had overnight in the fridge. After buying a new turkey I thought to get on the Butterball turkey help line. They were fantastic and assured me the growth was actually a processing burn and totally safe.

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            Yep, it’s great! You can call or text with all your turkey questions. I texted and so the lady helping me even asked for pictures of the “growth”! She sent the issue up the line until it was identified. This was just last year, and I’m still mad about throwing out a perfectly good turkey before trying the helpline.

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        I love the word spatchcock. It’s two already funny and silly sounding words smashed together to make an even funnier and sillier sounding word. It’s a clever way of cooking it, too; it just sounds so silly. Spatchcock!

        Thanks for reminding me that the word spatchcock exists! Spatchcock, spatchcocked, spatchcocking! You’ve got this word stuck in my head now!

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    I’m at a US military base in the Eastern hemisphere so it’s absolutely too late for us here.

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    That’s me everytime I have frozen ground meat. Then I stab it like a serial killer with a dull knife in the heated cooking pot until it breaks. It’s almost like a ritual.